Question

I have a school project to do and it involves developing a prototype app that runs locally on my PC, checking for changes to files etc in a specified file directory and upon picking up any changes I need it to copy any changed files into “the cloud” (a kinda stripped down dropbox if you like)

I’ve did some research and set up an amazon web services account/amazon s3 and im thinking of trying to sync my files up to that.

The app doesn’t have to be in a specific language so I also looked at some options with regards to that and came across python which looked usable but I am totally new to it and was wondering how hard it would be to write this sort of thing with python and I would really appreciate any advice on how I could go about this or any pointers?

Thanks in advance guys

Answer 1

I believe this would be accomplished by a combination of Tim Golden’s Watch a Directory for Changes and Amazon’s Boto.

Gluing the two together is left as an exercise to the student.